Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”

Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Introduction to English translation
Workshop on: Subject – verb agreement & Tenses
FIRST ACTIVITY: Fill in the blanks

Instruction: Dear student, complete the following sentences by filling in the blanks with the correct tense
and form of the verb in brackets. Please check verbs that are in negative or interrogative form:

a. When Tom ___________ (get) home yesterday, his children ___________ (play) tennis in the living room.

b. Last night, Jess ____________ (cook) dinner while Tom and Jim ____________ (study) for their final exam.

c. A: Where _______ Mary ____________ (work)?

B: I’m not sure, but I think she ____________ (make) part of a multinational company.

d. The tree ____________ (fall) down five minutes before the school bus ____________ (arrive) to that point.

e. Poor John! He ____________ (neg. do) anything wrong when the teacher ____________ (get) in the classroom. However,
he was seriously punished.

f. Jack and Rick ____________ (travel) to Amazonas twice, and they ____________ (go) this year again.

g. A: Jess ____________ (look) exhausted tonight.

B: She ____________ (paint) her room all day long.

h. Bill and Sheila ____________ (neg. like) to attend Mr. Brown’s class, because the teacher ____________ (neg. prepare)
classes very well. They are really disappointed with that course.

i. The teacher just ____________ (tell) us that our final test ____________ (take place) in the main auditorium. I really
____________ (like) that room.

j. My new neighbor is famous football player. I ____________ (neg. have) talked to him yet, but I ____________ (invite) him
over for dinner this week.

k. We ____________ (neg. see) anybody strange before the robbery ____________ (occur)

l. A: Why ________ Andrea ____________ (travel) to Cartagena yesterday?

B: Because she ____________ (have) to make a presentation at a university.

Author: Mauricio Buitrago Avilés

Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz
 Corporación Universitaria del Caribe “CECAR”
Bachelor in Education
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Subject: Introduction to English translation
Workshop on: Subject – verb agreement & Tenses
SECOND ACTIVITY: Are the following sentences correct (C) or incorrect (I)?

Instruction: Identify the subjects and verbs of the following sentences by using a COLOR CONVENTION and
analyze if SUBJECT – VERB agreement and verb conjugation of each one of them is correct. Then, CORRECT
the wrong sentences

1- Surprisingly, most of the employees arrive early to work despite the terrible traffic. _____

2- The supplies in the warehouse needs to be packed for tomorrow’s delivery. _____

3- The chairs of the main lounge is really comfortable. _____

4- Paul doesn’t really needs to work so hard, he is very rich. _____

5- Next December, my parents and I are travelling to Miami for vacation. _____

6- Every student in the class must submits their final paper by Monday next week. _____

7- The final exams and reports of our course haven’t been revised by our teacher yet. _____

8- The trees around this lake have shown a great recovery thanks to the fumigation process. _____

9- This chapter may contains very useful information. _____

10- Last week, the finance department was convoking an internal meeting to discuss new policies. _____

11- The weather in this area of the river make the cultivation of rice really difficult. _____

12- We should have known in advance what topics would not be included in the final exam. ________

13- The best worker of our company hasn’t received the credit he deserves. _____

14- The cost of the last printers exceed all our budget expectations. _____

15- In the last two hundred years, this country have faced very strong political crises. _____.

16- The reasons for the internal crisis of that country was still a mystery. _____.

17- This coming week, our boss is going to announce the promoted employee. _____

18- In spite of all the observations, my marketing project completes all the requirements _____.

19- In spite of all her efforts, Natalie didn’t obtained the scholarship she wanted. _____

20- The meeting with all the members of the council begin at 3:00 pm. _____.

21- The consequences of this drought are not measurable yet. _____.

22- Nobody would attacked others to rob them if the wealth was equally distributed. _____.

23- The Ministry of Education isn’t taking into account the needs of many students of our country. _____.

24- Many young people and children in Colombia have witnessed really atrocious crimes _____.
Author: Mauricio Buitrago Avilés
Adapted by: Rubén Mauricio Muñoz